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"Former Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood plans to release his first solo album early next year. The currently untitled work features the singer/guitarist backed by the Texas version of the Puppets (guitarist Kyle Ellison, drummer Shandon Sahm, and bassist Andrew DuPlantis) assembled for 2000&amp;apos;s Golden Lies, and many of the tracks began as outtakes of that record.\n\n&amp;quot;I went back and listened to [the tracks] and liked them more than the last Meat Puppets record,&amp;quot; Kirkwood says. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;apos;t want to continue calling it &amp;apos;Meat Puppets.&amp;apos; It&amp;apos;s kind of a hodgepodge of different recordings -- some that I did in my living room -- so I figured I&amp;apos;d better just call it a &amp;apos;solo record.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\n\nAmong the tracks slated for the record are &amp;quot;Enemy Love Song,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Nursery Rhyme,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m Not You&amp;quot; and Golden Lies&amp;apos; aborted title track. &amp;quot;It actually sounds a little more like the old Meat Puppets,&amp;quot; Kirkwood says. &amp;quot;[This lineup] likes to play the more straightforward rock.&amp;quot;\n\nKirkwood has also re-teamed with ex-Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh (the two were bandmates in the short-lived Eyes Adrift) to form a new band called Volcano. &amp;quot;[The producer] says it sounds a lot like Eighties, SST-era, Up On the Sun Meat Puppets. But there&amp;apos;s more bouncy rhythms -- we do a lot more stuff that was inspired by the Selecter, the Specials and Bob Marley.&amp;quot; The band plans to tour the West Coast in early August.\n \nMissing from Kirkwood&amp;apos;s projects is his brother Cris, who co-founded the Meat Puppets with him in 1980 before falling out of the band amid drug problems in the late Nineties. Cris is serving jail time after a violent encounter with a post office security guard. &amp;quot;He got shot in the back, so that fucked him up really good,&amp;quot; Curt says. &amp;quot;He has to pay restitution to this guy and he has to serve twenty-eight months. I was telling the guy who is doing the evaluation, &amp;apos;He is not a criminal, he fell through the cracks, it&amp;apos;s your fault, you guys fucked up, you don&amp;apos;t take care of your mentally ill,&amp;apos; but ultimately he has to be responsible. And I think he understands that this is a good chance for him.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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